Afterlives of Romantic Intermediality

The Intersection of Visual, Aural, and Verbal Frontiers

Edited by Leena Eilittä and Catherine Riccio-Berry - Contributions by James Cisneros; Jacinto Fombona Iribarren; Klara Franz; Tobias Hermans; Antonio J. Jimenez-Munoz; Norman Kasper; Martina Moeller; Sabine Müller; Asko Nivala; Mattias Pirholt; Karl Schawelka and Arne Stollberg

Afterlives of Romantic Intermediality addresses the manifold, even global artistic developments that were initiated by European Romantics. In the first section, the contributors show how the rising perspective of intermediality was discussed in philosophical terms and adapted itself to Romantic literature and music. In the second section, the contributors show how post-Romantic writers, visual artists, and composers have engaged with Romantic heritage. By exploring primary works that range from European arts to Latin American literature, these essays focus on the interdisciplinary developments that have emerged in literature, music, painting, film, architecture, and video art. Overall, the contributions in this volume demonstrate that intermedial connections—or sometimes the conscious lack of such connections—embody intriguing aspects of modernity and postmodernity.

Lexington Books

Pages: 306 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-4985-2799-6 • Hardback • December 2015 • $143.00 • (£110.00)

978-1-4985-2800-9 • eBook • December 2015 • $135.50 • (£105.00)

Subjects: Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature, Art / History / European / Romanticism

Afterlives of Romantic Intermediality

The Intersection of Visual, Aural, and Verbal Frontiers

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Summary

Afterlives of Romantic Intermediality addresses the manifold, even global artistic developments that were initiated by European Romantics. In the first section, the contributors show how the rising perspective of intermediality was discussed in philosophical terms and adapted itself to Romantic literature and music. In the second section, the contributors show how post-Romantic writers, visual artists, and composers have engaged with Romantic heritage. By exploring primary works that range from European arts to Latin American literature, these essays focus on the interdisciplinary developments that have emerged in literature, music, painting, film, architecture, and video art. Overall, the contributions in this volume demonstrate that intermedial connections—or sometimes the conscious lack of such connections—embody intriguing aspects of modernity and postmodernity.

Details

Lexington Books

Pages: 306 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-4985-2799-6 • Hardback • December 2015 • $143.00 • (£110.00)

978-1-4985-2800-9 • eBook • December 2015 • $135.50 • (£105.00)

Subjects: Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature, Art / History / European / Romanticism

Author

Leena Eilittä is professor of comparative literature at the University of Tampere and docent of comparative literature at the University of Helsinki.

Catherine A. Riccio-Berry is associate instructor in comparative literature at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Leena H. Eilittä
Part I: Intermediality in the Romantic Arts and Philosophy
Loss of Presentiveness—and Poetical Explanations: Linguistic Iconicity in Poetry by Tieck and Eichendorff
Norman Kasper
Externalizing the Picture Frame: Keats’s Negative Capability and the Uses of Ekphrasis
Klara Franz
“Meteoric and Solar light”: Visuality as Formal Principle in Franz Liszt´s The Battle of the Huns
Arne Stollberg
Mediality and Intermediality in Friedrich Schlegel’s Early Romantic Thought
Asko Nivala
Aesthetic Unity and the Politics of Sameness in Clemens Brentano’s Theoretical Writings Mattias Pirholt
Part II: Afterlives of Romantic Intermediality
Video-Installations as Poems: Romantic legacies
Antonio J. Jimenez-Munoz
With Hoffmann at the Movies: Intermedial Poetics and Narration in Early German Cinema Sabine Müller
Gothic Ruins, Aesthetics of Fragmentation, and Identity in Crises in Rubble Films
Martina Moeller
‘Intermediality’ as an Aesthetic Program: Gustav Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen as a Post-Romantic Response to Wilhelm Müller’s Winterreise and Die schöne Müllerin
Tobias Hermans
The Role of Synesthesia in the Paragone of Bauhaus
Karl Schawelka
Desire, Ekphrasis and the Language of Early Films inSpanish American Modernista Travel Texts
Jacinto Fombona
Haunting of Ekphrasis. The River Plate Romantics Read Byron
James Cisneros
About the Editors and Contributors

Reviews

“This is among the finest selection of interdisciplinary papers on Romanticism I’ve seen. Richly varied and highly stimulating.”
— David Hertz, Indiana University

"Afterlives of Romantic Intermediality is an excellently edited and highly readable collection of essays. Its authors emphasize a range of questions central to inter-art relationships, highlighting terms such as synesthesia, metaphoricity, sublimity, and many others. Although its emphasis falls on the German Romantics, this volume goes well beyond German sources. It explores an array of texts, including not only representatives of the long nineteenth century, but also contemporary practitioners—from Schlegel and Keats up to the video artist Bill Viola—frequently finding new, creative, and surprising connections between them."
— Brad Prager, University of Missouri